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- We have gathered as women,

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at the Seneca Army Depot,

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to challenge the nuclear threat

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represented by the weapons stored here.

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We have come to stop their deployment.

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As first strike weapons,

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they lead us one step closer
to planetary annihilation.

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♪ Can you feel the spirit? ♪

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♪ She is like a mountain ♪

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♪ Old and strong ♪

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♪ She goes on and on ♪

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♪ Can you feel the spirit? ♪

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♪ She is like a mountain ♪

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♪ Old and strong ♪

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- The Women's Encampment for
a Future of Peace and Justice,

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opened on July 4th, 1983,

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in the small town of Romulus, New York.

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Throughout the summer and into the fall,

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hundreds of women camped
out on 51 acres of farm land

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next to the Seneca Army Depot.

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The Depot is thought to be a storage site

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for nuclear weapons, and is
the probable departure point

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for missiles to be deployed in Europe.

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The women there, sought, not
only to halt the missiles,

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but to challenge the mentality,

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which they believe threatens
to destroy life on earth.

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- I have four sons, and the oldest is 24,

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and the youngest is 18.

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I remember, back when that
youngest one was a toddler,

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and I suddenly realized
that what I done was

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I'd given birth to a lot of canon fodder

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for the Vietnam War.

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And so I started organizing
a political movement in

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my kitchen with another woman.

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So I had been in it, and out of it,

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burned out on that, and back out.

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But I remember this kid toddling
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I made phone call after phone call. And,

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and that kid has to register
for the draft this summer.

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So, doing it again.

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- I believe the women in this encampment,

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have done a very brave
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and trying to bring
attention to the necessity

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of the very serious conflict,

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which exists with the, you know,

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a serious, expanding, nuclear arms race,

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which threatens the very
survival of humanity itself.

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And I think women have to
take a leading role in that.

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We don't have much power
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in governments, whether
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or in the Soviet Union, or other places,

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but we have the power of numbers,

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and we have a power of
a nurturing feeling,

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and we have the power of
our belief in survival.

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And this is what this is about.

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- Chinese have a proverb,

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women hold up half the heavens.

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And we know that women are
more than half the world.

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And part of what we're
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at the Peace Encampment at Seneca,

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at Greenham, at Comeso,

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at many, many places around the world,

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we're trying to marshal
the energies of women

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to transform the world.

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- On July 4th, the
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of many demonstrations.

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They marched from the camp to the Depot,

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and through symbolic actions,

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it dramatized their hopes and their fears.

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♪ Please give peace a chance ♪

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♪ Oh, we are safe ♪

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♪ Please give peace a chance ♪

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♪ Oh, we are safe ♪

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♪ Please give peace a chance ♪

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(crowd cheers)

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(crowd yells)

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- Statement is addressed to the Commander

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of the Seneca Army Depot, the Secretary,

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and Department of Defense,
and the President,

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from the Women's Encampment for a

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Future of Peace and Justice.

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We have gathered as women
at the Seneca Army Depot,

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to challenge the nuclear
threat represented

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by the weapons stored here.

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We have come to stop their deployment.

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As first strike weapons,

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they lead us one step closer
to planetary annihilation

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by making nuclear confrontation and

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intervention more likely,

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and by rendering a freeze, impossible.

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As we speak today,

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our voices express the
hopes and fears of women

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throughout the world.

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We demand the dismantling of every weapon

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stored at the Depot, and the Depot's...

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(crowd cheers)

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And the Depot's conversion
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providing jobs for the local community.

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We demand a halt to the
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and Pershing II missiles,

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and immediate freeze
of all nuclear weapons.

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(crowd cheers)

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We will continue to act at
Seneca, and around the world,

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until we are answered.

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We bring bread and roses,

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as a symbol of the alternative world

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we are working towards.

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We're both the body
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rather than threatened with extermination.

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The Army Depot's motto,

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is mission first, people always.

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Ours will be, our first
mission is always people.

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(crowd cheers)

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I would like to know if
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could accept this statement
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the Secretary, and Department
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if they would please come
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(crowd cheers)

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We would also like to know

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if you would please take the bread,

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as a symbol of our solidarity.

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(crowd laughs)

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(crowd cheers)

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- I'm in a place surrounded by

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such a diverse group of women.

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You know, age wise, from
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up to those 87 year old,
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And it provides for me, at the age of 56,

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still, I have need for role models.

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I still am learning
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and can be free.

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And I'm seeing an image of
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I think that the patriarchal
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all the time, and always
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and saying, oh, give it up.

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You know, it's some crazy dream.

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- We have unloaded 30 pounds of gravel.

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We have brought in 22 proteges.

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A group of women, last weekend,

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dug through this hard clay, 1000 feet,

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in 3 hours.

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(crowd cheers)

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And that's one of the reasons

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why this is a Women's Encampment,

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because this is space where we can do

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whatever we want to be able to do,

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and develop our skills.

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And there isn't anything we can't do.

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(crowd cheers)

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And that goes for stopping the missiles!

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(crowd cheers)

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♪ We are a patient, stubborn, people ♪

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♪ And we are singing ♪

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♪ Singing for our life ♪

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♪ We are a patient, stubborn, people ♪

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♪ And we are singing ♪

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♪ Singing for our life ♪

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♪ We are a bright, courageous people ♪

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♪ And we are singing ♪

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♪ Singing for our life ♪

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♪ We are a bright, courageous people ♪

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♪ And we are singing ♪

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♪ Singing for our life ♪

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- I came here as, you know, because

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the men are about to kill
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we're trying to save life on the planet.

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It's like almost impossible, (laughs)

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because we've got to
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And it is a terrible nuisance, but

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I cling to the word, almost.

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Maybe we can do it.

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- We were just there, at the Depot,

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saying nuclear weapons
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There's no reason why we couldn't,

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shouldn't pay men and women.

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Many men feel that too.

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I think what distinguishes us here,

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is that we have almost all
of us, the feminist vision,

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that we're never going to end war

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unless we dissolve the patriarchy.

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- An important aspect of
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was a commitment to give
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To this end,

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they determined all policies by consensus,

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a time-consuming and
often frustrating process.

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Consensus was put to a test,

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when a Romulus resident
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to fly an American flag on July 4th.

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- I am scared to fly that flag.

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I'm scared of what that represents

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to people in this country
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I believe that we're all
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- I'd like to somehow communicate that

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I am an American, you know?

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For all the horrible
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and continues to do, that is who I am.

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I don't have power or control
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and I'm trying like hell to get more.

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- It seems to me, that there's
got to be some way we can use

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the symbolism of the
flag to say something.

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And I'm not sure exactly
what that is, but,

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but somehow I feel I trust
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that we can come up with some
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to say what we want to say.

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- There were five women who
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There were five women who really did not

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want to fly the flag.

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And there were five, brave souls who said,

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we'll help mediate this.

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And so the 15 of them met for six hours.

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And at the end of the six hours,

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the only thing they
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At the end of that time, they said, well,

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what we'll do is we'll have
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we'll fly a bunch of flags on
the 4th of July and people can

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make whatever it is that feels
like a good flag for them.

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- Well, when the flag incident happened,

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I feel what happened, was
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They had the flag, and we had our hands,

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and we had our pillow cases,

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but we didn't have any conversation.

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- Look, the only reason I'm here,

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is the thing with the flag.

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You know, I'm,

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I'm not totally upset about it,

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but the flag does mean an awful lot to me.

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I don't know if my mind would be different

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if I wasn't a vet or
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You got to respect it.

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- Tension between the
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grew throughout the summer.

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It reached a peak in late July,

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when women marched through
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in celebration of the
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in women's rights.

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The marches were blocked
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angry townspeople, as
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Some of the women sat down,

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and 54 of them were arrested
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- First, I saw this huge
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And so, my friend and I, kind of,

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climbed through the people.

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And then I saw a group of
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and looking kind of frightened.

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And then I saw this one woman, on purple,

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a woman from Vermont, who looked at me,

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straight in the eyes, and grabbed me,

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and started heaving and
crying hysterically.

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And she was scared. She was
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- We sat down for two reasons.

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We sat down to say, we
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We also sat down to
diffuse their violence.

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Because, that we were saying,
we have the right to do this.

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We were also saying,

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we're not going to thrust
our way through you.

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- When we got arrested,

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I wasn't too sure why
I was getting arrested.

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But more and more,

262
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it seems to me that we got
arrested because we were,

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not only because we were lesbians,

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or because the town
perceived us to be lesbians,

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but because we were women
and it was easy to arrest us

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then it was to arrest these men.

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And because we were
going to be non-violent,

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it was easier to arrest us too,

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then to arrest these men who
might strike back at them.

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- They were saying, go
home commies, go home Jews,

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nuke the lezzies.

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Sometimes they also said, kill the Jews.

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Let's see some blood.

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When they said, go home commies,

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most of them don't even
know what communism is,

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but they saw another form of government.

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When they said, go home Jews,

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they saw another form of religion.

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When they said, nuke the lezzies,

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they saw another form of sexuality.

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And it's true. If you dissolve patriarchy,

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you change the form of government,

283
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the form of religion,

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the form of sexuality.

285
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So in a certain sense,

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they were very perceptive,

287
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even though they were out of their minds.

288
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- The arrested women were arraigned

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in a makeshift courthouse

290
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at the Seneca County Fairgrounds.

291
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Both encampment women and local residents

292
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turned out to watch the proceedings.

293
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- America is wrong in a
lot of the things they do,

294
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but America is the best
country in this world.

295
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And it's the best we got.

296
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And I don't think that
these women are here,

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putting America down,

298
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trying to put the blame on America,

299
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for the problems we have

300
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in the third world countries,

301
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as well as throughout the world,

302
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is, I don't see how they can do that.

303
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I think they should go to Russia,

304
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and gather around the Kremlin,

305
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and blow up the Kremlin,

306
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or something worthwhile.

307
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- We were very concerned,
as villagers of Waterloo,

308
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that our mayor had
expressed in an interview,

309
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that the sentiments of the villagers were

310
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represented Saturday in
that group of 300 people.

311
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And there are certainly
more than 300 people

312
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in this village.

313
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And many of us do not feel

314
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that what they did was appropriate,

315
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since we feel very strongly,
that people who wish

316
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to come through our village peacefully,

317
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have every right to do so.

318
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And we were quite concerned
about the behavior of our own

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elected officials.

320
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- The anger and fury at
the bridge at Waterloo,

321
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is, was, was still to me, part of a,

322
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it was really a dialogue.

323
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I mean, it was a dialogue
that began in rage,

324
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and because of the position,

325
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the fluid position of the
town and arresting people,

326
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it's really given lots
of, lots of townspeople,

327
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an opportunity to come forward and speak.

328
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- I am more than willing
to exchange with you,

329
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but I don't want to be accused
of being anti-American,

330
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or disloyal, or anything.

331
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I'm concerned about your life.

332
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I'm concerned about my life,

333
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and concerned about my children's.

334
00:16:00,010 --> 00:16:02,160
I'm concerned about
Russian children's lives.

335
00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,590
I don't care who is the
first to throw the bomb.

336
00:16:04,590 --> 00:16:06,280
We're all going to go.

337
00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,610
- I feel that our government
knows what they're doing,

338
00:16:08,610 --> 00:16:10,506
and if they don't feel
that they should be there,

339
00:16:10,506 --> 00:16:11,805
then they wouldn't be there.

340
00:16:11,805 --> 00:16:14,527
- We are the government.

341
00:16:14,527 --> 00:16:17,050
And you do you want somebody to die,

342
00:16:17,050 --> 00:16:19,470
just so one government can
say that they're right,

343
00:16:19,470 --> 00:16:22,090
and the other, it's trying
to say the other's wrong?

344
00:16:22,090 --> 00:16:23,680
We're going to die in that process.

345
00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,840
That's not a constructive,
healthy process.

346
00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,070
- All I have to say, is we
all have to go sometime.

347
00:16:29,070 --> 00:16:31,360
- Although the arrested women
were eventually released and

348
00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:33,030
charges against them dismissed,

349
00:16:33,030 --> 00:16:35,480
the experience at Waterloo
led the peace campers to

350
00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:37,683
intensify their training in nonviolence.

351
00:16:38,550 --> 00:16:40,270
Prior to a large demonstration and

352
00:16:40,270 --> 00:16:43,000
civil disobedience action on August 1st,

353
00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,183
workshops and peacekeeping were organized.

354
00:16:47,180 --> 00:16:52,020
- Acting together in a
non-violent way, creates power.

355
00:16:52,020 --> 00:16:54,150
And that is why I said at the beginning,

356
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we are choosing the most
effective political strategy

357
00:16:58,370 --> 00:17:01,033
there is, for confrontation.
This is power.

358
00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,765
And that's the job of the
peacekeeper, you know?

359
00:17:04,765 --> 00:17:07,015
(applause)

360
00:17:10,610 --> 00:17:14,140
- Civil disobedience is
making a very conscious choice

361
00:17:14,140 --> 00:17:17,426
to non cooperate with a law that protects

362
00:17:17,426 --> 00:17:20,843
the rights of people, who we
believe are breaking the law.

363
00:17:21,730 --> 00:17:24,593
- And what kind of forms
can civil disobedience take?

364
00:17:25,610 --> 00:17:26,980
- Well, in this instance,

365
00:17:26,980 --> 00:17:28,900
and what we're going to be doing tomorrow,

366
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it's going to take the form
of people consciously deciding

367
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to not respect the property
rights of people who are

368
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breaking international treaties
by using weapons of violence

369
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that can annihilate civilians.

370
00:17:42,170 --> 00:17:43,853
It's against international law.

371
00:17:44,730 --> 00:17:47,573
- And how effective do you think
civil disobedience will be?

372
00:17:54,430 --> 00:17:55,390
- I don't, you know,

373
00:17:55,390 --> 00:17:58,640
all I can say is that I will be being

374
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the best human being I can be tomorrow.

375
00:18:02,226 --> 00:18:05,077
♪ We are going to a peaceful world ♪

376
00:18:05,077 --> 00:18:08,426
♪ Does anyone want to come with us? ♪

377
00:18:08,426 --> 00:18:11,826
♪ We are going to a peaceful world ♪

378
00:18:11,826 --> 00:18:15,176
♪ Does anyone want to come along? ♪

379
00:18:15,176 --> 00:18:18,677
♪ I'm singing hey, the (inaudible) ♪

380
00:18:18,677 --> 00:18:21,928
♪ Hey, the sunshine ♪

381
00:18:21,928 --> 00:18:25,888
♪ Hey, the (inaudible) ♪

382
00:18:25,888 --> 00:18:28,666
♪ Does anyone want to come along? ♪

383
00:18:28,666 --> 00:18:29,677
- We're singing it together.

384
00:18:29,677 --> 00:18:32,618
♪ We are going through the gate ♪

385
00:18:32,618 --> 00:18:36,088
♪ Does anyone want to come with us? ♪

386
00:18:36,088 --> 00:18:39,566
♪ We are going to the gate ♪

387
00:18:39,566 --> 00:18:42,595
♪ Does anyone want to come along? ♪

388
00:18:42,595 --> 00:18:46,477
♪ I'm singing hey, the road ♪

389
00:18:46,477 --> 00:18:49,917
♪ Hey, the (inaudible) ♪

390
00:18:49,917 --> 00:18:53,248
♪ Hey, the people ♪

391
00:18:53,248 --> 00:18:58,248
♪ Does anyone want to come along? ♪

392
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- 3000 women joined the march
to the gates of the Depot,

393
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where once again,

394
00:19:05,383 --> 00:19:08,220
they were confronted by angry townspeople.

395
00:19:08,220 --> 00:19:09,600
Violence was averted,

396
00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,440
and the women went ahead
with their planned actions.

397
00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,940
244 were arrested for
committing civil disobedience by

398
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climbing over the Depot fence.

399
00:19:18,757 --> 00:19:22,136
♪ We are safe ♪

400
00:19:22,136 --> 00:19:26,898
♪ Please give peace a chance ♪

401
00:19:26,898 --> 00:19:28,237
- [Crowd Chants] Nuke them til they go!

402
00:19:28,237 --> 00:19:30,117
Nuke them til they go!

403
00:19:30,117 --> 00:19:31,946
Nuke them til they go!

404
00:19:31,946 --> 00:19:33,797
Nuke them til they go!

405
00:19:33,797 --> 00:19:36,235
Nuke them til they go!

406
00:19:36,235 --> 00:19:39,206
- I'm here as an Italian, as a European,

407
00:19:39,206 --> 00:19:42,157
and as a woman.

408
00:19:42,157 --> 00:19:44,107
As an Italian, as a European,

409
00:19:44,107 --> 00:19:46,200
and as a person who lives in Sicily,

410
00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,380
I'm now half away from the base,

411
00:19:48,380 --> 00:19:52,410
where, by the end of this year, 112,

412
00:19:52,410 --> 00:19:55,060
whose missiles are bound to arrive,

413
00:19:55,060 --> 00:19:58,426
I'm here connecting with my
American sister to protest the

414
00:19:58,426 --> 00:20:00,573
deployment of these missiles.

415
00:20:01,645 --> 00:20:03,695
- Get on the line. The peacekeepers here.

416
00:20:04,757 --> 00:20:07,260
(crowd chants)

417
00:20:07,260 --> 00:20:09,960
- In El Salvador and central America,

418
00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,170
we are witnessing, with anguish,

419
00:20:12,170 --> 00:20:16,330
the United States enormous
military escalation

420
00:20:16,330 --> 00:20:20,030
that threatens the lives of
the people of the region.

421
00:20:20,030 --> 00:20:23,970
Now, with the excuse of
national security interests,

422
00:20:23,970 --> 00:20:28,020
the Reagan Administration has
escalated the militarization

423
00:20:28,020 --> 00:20:32,870
to such a degree, that the whole
region is being threatened.

424
00:20:32,870 --> 00:20:35,700
The people of El Salvador
and central America,

425
00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:37,693
want nothing but peace.

426
00:20:38,949 --> 00:20:41,532
(crowd cheers)

427
00:20:49,218 --> 00:20:50,301
- Ay, ay, ay!

428
00:20:55,007 --> 00:20:57,590
(crowd chants)

429
00:21:01,088 --> 00:21:03,421
- (screams)

430
00:21:05,147 --> 00:21:07,470
- I have came here for the German people,

431
00:21:07,470 --> 00:21:09,380
adapting to the majority,

432
00:21:09,380 --> 00:21:12,640
against the deployment of
Pershing II and Cruz missiles.

433
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:13,580
And as you might know,

434
00:21:13,580 --> 00:21:16,230
our country is going to be the only one

435
00:21:16,230 --> 00:21:18,740
where Pershing II shall be deployed.

436
00:21:18,740 --> 00:21:21,620
So we have come here to
link with our sisters,

437
00:21:21,620 --> 00:21:25,310
to Jack, to the mad
men, running the world,

438
00:21:25,310 --> 00:21:27,960
which, what we want to stop the arms race,

439
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,103
because we will have no
chance if we don't make it.

440
00:21:32,309 --> 00:21:34,892
(crowd cheers)

441
00:21:45,250 --> 00:21:46,170
- As women,

442
00:21:46,170 --> 00:21:49,330
we feel that we are citizens of the world,

443
00:21:49,330 --> 00:21:51,540
rather than citizens of different nations.

444
00:21:52,378 --> 00:21:54,640
We want to save the world's life.

445
00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,240
We want to save the world.

446
00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,538
We want to save the earth.

447
00:21:58,538 --> 00:22:00,710
- The demonstration on August 1st,

448
00:22:00,710 --> 00:22:02,180
was the largest single action.

449
00:22:02,180 --> 00:22:04,470
The women continued to
work for their vision

450
00:22:04,470 --> 00:22:07,288
of peace and justice
throughout the summer.

451
00:22:07,288 --> 00:22:09,871
(crowd cheers)

452
00:22:15,710 --> 00:22:17,750
- Somehow that word, expectations,

453
00:22:17,750 --> 00:22:19,340
sounds to me like, you know,

454
00:22:19,340 --> 00:22:24,170
do you think we've moved
the nation closer to,

455
00:22:24,170 --> 00:22:26,350
to establishing a nuclear freeze,

456
00:22:26,350 --> 00:22:29,510
or have we done something essential

457
00:22:29,510 --> 00:22:32,010
about stopping nuclear war?

458
00:22:32,010 --> 00:22:35,680
And I guess, you know, no.

459
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:40,168
I can't think that we've
done that, specifically,

460
00:22:40,168 --> 00:22:44,080
but, the most important thing
that happens out of this,

461
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,830
in my perceptions, is the connections

462
00:22:47,830 --> 00:22:52,830
that women's energy are making
through these experiences.

463
00:22:52,968 --> 00:22:53,801
And out of that,

464
00:22:54,730 --> 00:22:58,120
is the only hope, I think,
of saving life on the planet.

465
00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:01,168
- What are you taking
with you as you leave?

466
00:23:01,168 --> 00:23:02,280
- (laughs)

467
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,720
The spirit, a sense of empowerment.

468
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,060
It was an incredible experience,

469
00:23:08,060 --> 00:23:11,270
and going home with energy

470
00:23:11,270 --> 00:23:14,550
to continue peace work
in my own community.

471
00:23:14,550 --> 00:23:16,410
- More than anything, hope,

472
00:23:16,410 --> 00:23:19,310
and a determination to fight this battle,

473
00:23:19,310 --> 00:23:20,810
as long as I'm alive.

474
00:23:20,810 --> 00:23:23,270
- It's been an incredible
learning experience for me

475
00:23:23,270 --> 00:23:28,180
to see women of various
sexual persuasions,

476
00:23:28,180 --> 00:23:32,540
as well as colors, and backgrounds, ages,

477
00:23:32,540 --> 00:23:34,420
coming together for one purpose.

478
00:23:34,420 --> 00:23:37,650
- Where you have hunger, there is war.

479
00:23:37,650 --> 00:23:41,270
Where you have ignorance, there is war.

480
00:23:41,270 --> 00:23:44,389
When you have a squatter
settlements and people

481
00:23:44,389 --> 00:23:46,390
eating out of garbage cans,

482
00:23:46,390 --> 00:23:50,120
as I see in my neighborhood,
or people with no homes,

483
00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:55,120
or people dying of disease
and lack of immunization,

484
00:23:55,540 --> 00:23:56,610
and lack of food,

485
00:23:56,610 --> 00:23:57,780
well, then that is war.

486
00:23:57,780 --> 00:24:01,150
And that's why I say we must
stop the deployment of the

487
00:24:01,150 --> 00:24:03,640
crews and missiles in Western Europe.

488
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,500
Not only this year, but any year.

489
00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:08,230
I think it's important to
understand that we can do it.

490
00:24:08,230 --> 00:24:12,930
We must also realize that the
missiles all already deployed

491
00:24:12,930 --> 00:24:16,580
in the Barrios, in the
ghettos, in the (inaudible),

492
00:24:17,469 --> 00:24:19,057
in the occupied territories!

493
00:24:19,057 --> 00:24:21,640
(crowd cheers)

494
00:24:22,669 --> 00:24:25,498
♪ We are the old, and
then we are the new ♪

495
00:24:25,498 --> 00:24:27,028
♪ And then we are the same ♪

496
00:24:27,028 --> 00:24:29,498
♪ And we're stronger than before ♪

497
00:24:29,498 --> 00:24:32,715
♪ We are the old, and
then we are the new ♪

498
00:24:32,715 --> 00:24:34,418
♪ And then we are the same ♪

499
00:24:34,418 --> 00:24:36,789
♪ And we're stronger than before ♪

500
00:24:36,789 --> 00:24:39,997
♪ We are the old, and
then we are the new ♪

501
00:24:39,997 --> 00:24:41,757
♪ And then we are the same ♪

502
00:24:41,757 --> 00:24:44,138
♪ And we're stronger than before ♪

503
00:24:44,138 --> 00:24:47,168
♪ We are the old, and
then we are the new ♪

504
00:24:47,168 --> 00:24:48,938
♪ And then we are the same ♪

505
00:24:48,938 --> 00:24:51,268
♪ And we're stronger than before ♪

506
00:24:51,268 --> 00:24:54,488
♪ We are the old, and
then we are the new ♪

507
00:24:54,488 --> 00:24:56,258
♪ And then we are the same ♪

508
00:24:56,258 --> 00:24:58,578
♪ And we're stronger than before ♪

509
00:24:58,578 --> 00:25:01,627
♪ We are the old, and
then we are the new ♪

510
00:25:01,627 --> 00:25:03,317
♪ And then we are the same ♪

511
00:25:03,317 --> 00:25:05,637
♪ And we're stronger than before ♪

512
00:25:05,637 --> 00:25:08,688
♪ We are the old, and
then we are the new ♪

513
00:25:08,688 --> 00:25:10,476
♪ And then we are the same ♪

514
00:25:10,476 --> 00:25:12,768
♪ And we're stronger than before ♪

515
00:25:12,768 --> 00:25:15,808
♪ We are the old, and
then we are the new ♪

516
00:25:15,808 --> 00:25:17,656
♪ And then we are the same ♪

517
00:25:17,656 --> 00:25:19,908
♪ And we're stronger than before ♪

518
00:25:19,908 --> 00:25:23,115
♪ We are the old, and
then we are the new ♪

519
00:25:23,115 --> 00:25:24,808
♪ And then we are the same ♪

520
00:25:24,808 --> 00:25:27,117
♪ And we're stronger then before ♪

521
00:25:27,117 --> 00:25:30,288
♪ We are the old, and
then we are the new ♪

522
00:25:30,288 --> 00:25:31,989
♪ And then we are the same ♪

523
00:25:31,989 --> 00:25:34,349
♪ And we're stronger then before ♪

524
00:25:34,349 --> 00:25:37,458
♪ We are the old, and
then we are the new ♪

525
00:25:37,458 --> 00:25:39,269
♪ And then we are the same ♪

526
00:25:39,269 --> 00:25:41,517
♪ And we're stronger then before ♪

527
00:25:41,517 --> 00:25:44,698
♪ We are the old, and
then we are the new ♪

528
00:25:44,698 --> 00:25:46,155
♪ And then we are the same ♪

529
00:25:46,155 --> 00:25:48,637
♪ And we're stronger then before ♪

530
00:25:48,637 --> 00:25:52,007
♪ We are the old, and
then we are the new ♪

531
00:25:52,007 --> 00:25:53,448
♪ And then we are the same ♪

532
00:25:53,448 --> 00:25:56,075
♪ And we're stronger then before ♪

533
00:25:56,075 --> 00:25:58,742
(crowd cheers)